Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

10.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

11.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

13.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

14.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

18.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

19.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

20.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

22.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

23.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

25.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

26.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

29.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

34.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

38.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

40.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

41.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

42.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

43.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

44.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

46.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

47.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

48.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

49.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur